On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:50:50 -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In response to Typhoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > <SNIP> > > > However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it > > to make ugly manuscripts. > > I don't know how this is relevant. > > To return to the original point of this thread: > > I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my > manuscripts. They are required to be in "standard manuscript format" > as described here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a > tankful of other places. > > Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx > for this purpose? > > At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own > template. But Rich suggested that you use the article class with monospaced fonts. Double spacing can be set in the LyX menus. All that is left is to adjust the margins. You can do that directly in the LyX menus. As to the front page requirements, there have been many comments on this list that the front matter is usually best hand crafted. If you want to see how the hand crafting of front matter might be done, have a look at my book "Self-publishing with LyX". It's a free download from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 The book will also show you how to set headers of the kind that Shunn suggests. It seems to me that this will meet all the essential requirements of Shunn's guidelines. I still think that it produces an ugly manuscript :-). Alan > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com >
